Combination hog brooder and feeder



Dec. 19, 1922. 1,439,157

Witnesses: Inventor: 7? 77%. Arthur Forob.

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Dec. 19, 1922.

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coirnirinrron nee nnoonnr. Ann rnnnnnj Application filed November 12, 1821. Serial N0; 514,631.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, ARTHUR Fonn, a citizen of the United States, anda residentof the city of Galesburg, county of Knox, and State of Illinois, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in a Combination Hog- Breeder and Feeder, of which the following is a specification. i

My invention relates to new and useful improvements in a combination :hog'brooder and feeder and has for its principal object the provision of aconstruction of this character which will be highly efficient in use.

Other objects will appear hereinafter.

The invention consists in the combinations and arrangements of parts hereinafter de scribed and claimed. i

The invention will be best understood by reference to the accompanying drawings forming a part of this specification, and in Fig. 1 is a perspective View of my combination hog; brooder and feeder,

Fig. 2 is a vertical sectional view of the same,

Fig. 3 is an endelevational view of the same, and T 1 F ig. 4 is a fragmentary vertical cross secti'onal detail view of the same when used as a feeder. v

The purpose of my invention-is to provide a hog brooder Which will protect the pigs from being tramped or laid on bythe sow, and to provide a brooder which, when the brooding season is over, canbe converted into a feeder. I w

in carrying out my invention I provide hog breeder con'iprising a base member 5 and end walls (3 and 7. The end walls are provided. with doorways 8 and 9, through which the sow is led into the breeder during the brooding season, and which consist of vertically sliding doors 10 and '11, slidably mounted between horizontally extending strips '12 and 13, and held in an open position by hook members 12 and 13.The' lower half of the sidewalls Offthe brooder consist of a pair of oppositely disposed side walls 14 and 15 which are hingedly secured to the side edges of the base member 5. The upper side wall portions 16v and 17 of a brooder are fixedly secured to the end walls. 6 and 7. By referring to the drawings it will be noted that the lower side walls 14 and 15 are located outwardly from the up per side wall portions 16 and 1'7, to provide alleyway/s18 and 19 on each side of the main section 20of the breeder. Theroofs 21 and 22 between the lower side wall portions and the upper side wall portions are, hingedly secured to theupper side wall portions 16 and 17 about the center thereof, as clearly shown in Figs. 2 and 4; The lower ends of the upper side wall portions 16 and 17 extend downwardly into the brooder, as shown in Fig. 2, so as to provide an opening 23. between the main section 20 of the breeder and the alleyways 18 and 19. This arrangement is such that the lower ends of the upper side wall portions serve as a partitiondividing the main section 20 of the brooder from the alleyways 18 and 19, at

th'e'same time leaving an opening, as stated, large enough for the pros to scamper back into thealleyways from the main brooderQO. The purpose of providing alleyways 'on each thedrawings, is to allow the pigs, when the sow is in the breeder during the brooding season, to beable to run from one side of. the breeder to the other. The two side alleyways are connected together at one end of the breeder by anend alleyway Qiwhich is separated from the main section or stall'20' of the brooder by a vertically sliding door 25 of any suitable construction. The roof of the main section of the brooder comprises roof membersfZfi and 27 hingedly secured to a mainridge 28 which "is remo'vably supported by a vertically extending support 29 secured at each end of the breeder to the horizontally exteiiiding strip 13. This ar-. rangenient is such thatwhen the brooding season is overthe roof'nmy be entirely re-' moved or the roof ineiiihers 26 and :31" may be swung open to permit filling the breeder with feed for the hogs.

When the bl'OOdGl' is hingedly mounted side the hingedly mounted roofs 21 and 22 are swung open topermit the hogs to have access to the'feed, which flows through the o enin from the main section 20 of the brooder. ,Tn order to regulate the flow of feed, I have provided oppositely disposed downwardly and inwardly extending gate members 30 which-are slidably mounted in a groove 31 between guide members 32 which are secured to the end walls 6 and 7, as shown in Fig. 5 of the drawings. Tim said gate members 30 are rennin-id during the brooding season.

of the drawings! side of the breeder, as shown in Fig. 2 of used'as a feeder, the walls 1 1 and15 and When my invention is used for brooding the sow is led through the outer doorway 11,

past the slidably mounted partition into forepart of its body, I have secured to the top edges of the upper side wall portions, a numberot strips 33 equally spaced apart. Duringrthe brooding season the pigs have access to either side of the brooder through the alleyways, herein mentioned, which serve as a protection for the pigs when the sow lies down, thus preventing the sow from lying on the pigs. i

In a combination brooder and feeder, as herein set forth, it will be evident that the pigs, during the brooding season, have plenty of running space and are protected against injury which might beinflicted by the sow. The feeder as herein described will be of great advantage to the farmer,

avoidingthe necessity of being obliged to constantly give'feed tohis hogs as he would have to do otherwise.

, While I have illustrated described the preferred form of construction for carrying my invention into efiect, this is capable of variation and modification without departing from thespirit of the invention. 1,

; therefore, do not wish to'b'e limited to the precise details of the construction set forth, but desire to avail myself of suchvariations and modificationsias come within the scope of the appended claims.

Having describedmy invention, what I claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is: V i v i 1.. In a combination brooder and feeder comprising'end and sidewalls; a main stall in said brooder, there being an alleyway at each side of said main stall; a hingedly mounted roof removably supported by the end walls or said brooder in spaced relation :with respect to the upper edges of the side walls thereof; and transverse members carried on the upper edges of said side walls in spaced relation with respect to each other to prevent the removal of said roof by the occupant of said brooder, substantially as described.

2. Ina combinationbrooder and feeder comprising end and side walls, said side walls comprising upper and lower wallportions, said lowerwall portions being located outwardly beyond the upper wall portions and the lower ends of the upper wall portions being extended downwardly into said portions and resting on the upper edges of the lower Wall portions; and a roof over said main stall, said roof comprising parts hingedly connected together and supported in spaced relation with respect to the upper edges of said side wall portions topermit the admission of air into said brooderyand trans verse members carried by the upper side. wall portions to prevent the removal of the roof over the main stall by the occupant of said brocder, substantially as described.

In a combination brooder and feeder comprising a base, end'and side walls, the lower portions otsaid side walls being hingedly connected to said base and located outwardly from the upper portions of said sidewalls; root supports carried by the said end walls, a roof removablyicarried by said supports-said root comprising parts hingedly connected together and supported in spaced relation with respectrto the, upper edges of the upper side wallportions for the admission of air into said brooder; and

transverse members carried by the upper leading into said end alleyway and said main stall, substantially as described.

4*. In a combination brooder and =i'eeder comprising end and side walls, said side walls comprising upper and lower portions. said lower portions being located outwardly beyond said upper wall portionsand hingedly connected to they floor of said brooder; root members carried by said upper wall portions and resting on the top edges oi the lower side wall portions, said lower wall portions and said rool being opened when said ln'ooder-is used feeder; root supports carried by the end walls of said brooder; a removable root carried by said root supports; and transverse members carried by the upper wall portions to prevent the removal of said roof by the occupant of said brooder. In testimony whereof I have'signed my name to this specification in the presence of two subscribing witnesses.

' I ARTHUR FORD. Witnesses: i HELEN R. JOHNSON,

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